Bennane Head

{{Short description|Tapering piece of land formed of hard rock in South Ayrshire, Scotland}}

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| photo_caption = Towards Bennane Head Looking NNE from the edge of Downan Hill, towards Bennane Head and Ballantrae. 2007. Photo: Mary and Angus Hogg

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Bennane Head is a tapering piece of land formed of hard rock, projecting into the Firth of Clyde, in South Ayrshire, west of Scotland. At the northern end of Ballantrae Bay, {{convert|17|km|mi}} southwest of Girvan. A {{convert|200|m|ft|adj=mid|-deep}} cave in the cliff under the headland is said to be the place where the cannibal Sawney Bean and his family lived in the 16th century.{{cite book | author=Keith Fergus | title=The Ayrshire and Arran Coastal Paths | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SGCfYDaNq94C&pg=PA37 | accessdate=29 December 2012 | date=4 December 2012 | publisher=Cicerone Press Limited | isbn=978-1-84965-829-4 | pages=37 }}